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AM Frequency of the Week - 900 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you all hear on 900 kHz?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is CHML/Hamilton, ON with a weak signal during the day and more of a jumble at night with CHML usually on top. Near sunset I have heard what I think is WCPA/Clearfield, PA just before switching to night pattern but haven't positively IDed it yet.
 
Here in Houston it is local KREH Pecan Grove, TX. airing Vietnamese programming, day and night.
 
Here in Marysville, WA 900 is nothing days. Sunset usually has a strong KKRT Wenatchee, WA (ESPN). Nighttime brings CKBI Prince Albert, SK (Country), KKRT's 72 watts mainly on top, and once I heard CHML Hamilton, ON from Bellevue, WA at over 2000 miles. Full ID and old time radio, 1/4/2012.

900 before 2012 used to be CKMO Victoria, BC before they went off the air. They were "Village 900".

-crainbebo
 
Far northwest suburban Chicago.....

Day....splatter from WLS.
Night....Mess. CHML most likely to be on top (if anything).
 
A few years ago, Buckeye, you'd have received WFRO, Fremont, which made it to Fort Wayne and almost to Dayton with it's mighty 1000 watts. Here in Knoxville it's WKXV
 
900 khz here has a variety on it from night to night

So far these logs on it

Most evenings it's Spain/ Iran / Saudi Arabia and most early mornings it's Cuba/ Venezuela heard from here

900 khz - WCME - Brunswick, Maine 12:45 UTC 1/18/13
900 khz - SAUDI ARABIA - BSKSA, Qurayyat 23:37 UTC 1/4/08
900 khz - SPAIN - R. Popular de Bilbao, Bilbao 23:44UTC 4/4/11
900 khz - SPAIN - COPE, Madrid 23:33 UTC 8/9/08
900 khz - CUBA -R. Progresso ,Cacocum 4:10 UTC 11/21/10
900 khz - CHML - Hamilton,Ontario - 1:15 UTC 12/19/10
900 khz - ITALY - RAI1 Milano, 00:08 UTC 4/9/11
900 khz - IRAN - IRIB Tehran 2:06 UTC 8/20/11
900 khz - BRAZIL - ZYJ 454 Rio De Janeiro 8:08 UTC 11/01/12
900 khz - BRAZIL - R. O Liberal CBN ZYI 531 Belem 00:40 UTC 8/7/13
900 khz - VENEZUELA - YVMD R. Venezuela Mara Ritmo, Maracaibo 10:40 UTC 2/9/13
900 khz - WGHM - Nashua, New Hampshire 11:30 UTC 1/21/13
900 khz - BARBADOS - CBC Radio, Bridgetown 7:17 UTC 5/30/13
900 khz - MEXICO - XEW Mexico City 8:38 UTC 9/23/13
 
purpledevil said:
Here in Houston it is local KREH Pecan Grove, TX. airing Vietnamese programming, day and night.
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I know that the daytime signal is very good, but how does their 10-watt night signal make it to your place? I'd have thought XEW would have obliterated them!
 
gr8oldies said:
A few years ago, Buckeye, you'd have received WFRO, Fremont, which made it to Fort Wayne and almost to Dayton with it's mighty 1000 watts. Here in Knoxville it's WKXV
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Although WFRO was actually just 500 watts directional daytime, to the west it was in excess of the minimum Class equivalent of 1000 watts Class B, more than 282 mV/m inverse field. I just looked it up, it was 287 watts nighttime.
 
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In northern VA, I get a semilocal WILC Laurel, MD with Spanish music and programming on days. night, a kind of "fuzzy" with CHML often on top.

vo1001swl, that's quite impressive catches you got.
 
WFRO was eliminated when WFDF upgraded to 50000 watts. For some reason, WFDF was directional in the daytime beginning in 1941 when they moved to 910, with 1000 watts DA-1, the first directional daytime station in the state, and not technically necessary. 5000 watts nondirectional would have precluded WFRO with the pattern it had with 500 watts, WFDF at 5000 watts directional days (1000 watts nights) DA-1 beginning in 1957 showed the 0.5 mV/m contours almost overlapping or touching with the theoretical patterns, and slight overlap with the standard or augmented patterns, using M-3. A WFDF engineer once told me they had to "keep the signal out of Detroit", but it was never coowned with a Detroit station until it was with WJR when Disney acquired it. The only other reason I can think of is that it had a network affiliation that precluded it from overlap. WFDF was NBC beginning around that time and WWJ was also NBC, so maybe that was it. With a Sony portable back in the 1970s, in the winter I could null out WFDF just a few miles from the transmitter and hear WFRO.
 
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jd: you're right, XEW does come in at our house in Houston. Pretty weak signal when it does but it's there some nights waving in and out. Never gotten a legit ID on it, so I've never put it in my log. First time I caught XEW was on a Saturday night when they were playing English music and Radiohead's "Creep" was played, unedited. They go by "W" (spoken as doble u) radio if I'm not mistaken. The reports of reception in Ohio floor me. I'm so much closer, but don't get it anywhere near as frequently as XEG or XERF.

Can't underestimate KREH's 10 watts of power. It reaches Bellville alright at night.
 
Usually I hear CKBI from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, playing country and their liners mentioning all these little towns in the north of SK that they serve. Often there will be a weak KKRT, ESPN Wenatchee. And much less often I'll hear KBIF Fresno with their Asian programming.

The only other one is the now defunct CJVI, which used to be Victoria's Top 40 station.
 
CJVI-and later CKMO "Village 900" with world music. Now gone.

-crainbebo
 
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